Do you feel a bit like you’re on a scavenger hunt searching for the things you need? I do and I guess maybe that’s my inner self trying to lighten things up a bit.
Sometimes when I’m waiting for water to boil or something equally as exciting (yes . . I did boil fettuccine noodles for dinner yesterday), I go to either Walmart or Amazon online and search just to see what I can find. Yesterday I was on Walmart’s website and looked for toilet paper. No, we don’t need any but they had it! They had a good bit of it and the price wasn’t bad. I told Vince “Walmart has toilet paper online!” He said “Do we need any?” I said “No . . but I just like looking to see what’s available.” He thinks I’m crazy. I probably am.
I mentioned that I have no wax paper. I hardly ever use it and I guess that’s why I left mine in MO with the hair bow making supplies. But, when I make tortillas, I use it and when I dry sourdough starter so share with friends, I use it. I had looked online and Walmart nor Amazon. One of them had it through a third party seller – one box for $14 and some change. No! Last night, I went back to see if the toilet paper had sold out . . and it had, and decided to check again for wax paper. Walmart had it! $1.62. I got two boxes. I keep extra parchment paper, foil, plastic wrap, zipper bags but had no extra wax paper. I thought I was out of plastic wrap but found a box of that with the other wraps when I was looking for wax paper so I’m good for a while.
Walmart has free shipping for $35 orders and above so I added a few things – a six pack of penne pasta, work socks for Vince, cake flour and more Utz potato chips – ruffle ones this time. I have two cakes I want to make and both call for cake flour. I know how to make cake flour from all purpose flour but . . why waste the flour I have when cake flour was available.
I still hear people saying they’re having a hard time finding yeast. Pleasant Hill Grain has had yeast for several weeks. Flour still seems difficult to find and every time I use it, I feel like I’m being a bit extravagant and hope I can find more before too much longer.
Is there anything you’ve been looking for or wanting that you can’t find? Are things seeming better in the grocery stores in your area?
Teri says
None of the stores seem to have dried beans, rice, lentils and NO yeast or flour. The t.p. kleenex and paper towels are limited to one per customer when they have it.
RUTH CHOW says
I made whole wheat pie crust because I have lots of wheat and white flour is so scarce. I think it’s good!
Joyce says
It seems to vary every time I get groceries. I’ve been shopping every other week, but I’m ready to get back to a weekly run. Last week there WAS toilet paper and paper towels (which I did not buy since I didn’t need either), but no butter or margarine. In the laundry area there was no borax or washing soda or bleach. I make my own laundry soap, and I’m not critically low, but it would be good to have extra there. I have plenty of bleach, so I am not worried about that. I’m going to go out this afternoon, so we’ll see what is “short” today…
Linda in NE says
About the only thing our little store here is completely out of is disinfecting products of any kind and hand sanitizer. TP and paper towels are sometimes in short supply but lately there has at least been some. I was in the store on Wed. afternoon thinking that on the afternoon of freight day might be a good time. Still couldn’t get bread flour though I got some all purpose. No yeast at all. The owner said on her order for the week she had 40 cases of outs from the warehouse. Each week the shelves are looking a bit leaner. They had really nice produce though, and I got some very nice strawberries.
Dorothy Matheson says
My store has short supply of canned soup. However this week I got some items that have been on my list for a while. So supply is better. So glad my daughter ordered from boxed.com in early January and we each got the biggest packages of toilet paper at that time and we were not out so we have had plenty.
I keep that stocked.
I also bought some meat and some flour the week of the first cases because I knew this would be bad.
Now I shop for fresh fruit and some pre made food to just heat up as I do not like to cook.
I was also able to get laundry detergent this week.
And My Favorite Apple Turnovers. Yum.
montanaclarks says
No fresh chicken at Costco Thursday–nothing, no organic chicken, no regular chicken, nothing. I ended up buying frozen chicken breasts. No blocks of Parmesan cheese, no flour other than 25# bags, no yeast. The Costco cashier and I were both saying we just wanted to shop for groceries normally without worrying about dodging people, wearing a mask or wondering if we could find the things we needed/wanted.
Judy Laquidara says
YES! That’s all I want too. Will things ever be like that again? I hope . . but I wonder.
Susan says
Yes, things will be that way again. Have faith. We may have shortages of things from other countries for a while (but there are still lots of bananas, so maybe not!), but everything will get back to normal. I only hope that people have learned to have a little put by for the lean times that can come and go with the economy, health issues, job issues, and whatever else comes along.
Susan says
I’ve found pretty much anything I wanted, but I also haven’t needed a lot. At first, I noticed several stores were limited on meat, but now I don’t see that, and my brands are back in stock. TP is still iffy, but I find it often enough to keep us in stock. I just buy one when I find it and that keeps us going. Paper towels are slightly more available, and Kleenex. Masa has been hard to find, and even tortillas some places. I’m not too picky, though, so I bought some at Dollar General the other day. There’s no shortage of fresh fruits and vegetables, so it’s okay with me if I can’t find other things.
Judy Laquidara says
We haven’t been in a store since the first weekend in March. We placed an online order with Walmart last night and will pick it up in a day or so. They were out of a lot of things and there were a lot of limits. Limits on bacon, limits on deli meat, limits on chicken, pork chops, milk, cream, butter. I hate to have to pick up an order every two weeks but it’s almost impossible to buy enough to last from one trip to another.
Dar in MO says
Our stores are putting limits on some things, but since I do not need much, I have had no problems getting what I needed. The only exception is Steel Cut Oats. I have bought them for over 10 years (probably ever since you showed how you freeze them in muffin tins, which I started doing back then too) and now no one seems to have them. Are people using them for baking bread all of a sudden? I want them for my breakfast!!
I did buy the last bread flour package yesterday at the grocery store because it was on the bottom shelf next to the floor, and I had to get down on my knees to look to the back of the shelf to see if it were truly empty. I was rewarded with `1 package!